How To Use Venial In A Sentence
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I dont know whether i will laugh at myself when i am old, overlook myself just for venial things.
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If a lie in itself only constitutes a venial sin, it becomes mortal when it does grave injury to the virtues of justice and charity.
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The difference can not be the same as betwixt sins that are called venial and mortal: for he says, that if a man pray for his brother, who commits a sin that is not to death, life shall be given him: therefore such a one had before lost the life of grace, and been guilty of what is commonly called a mortal sin.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 69: 1 John The Challoner Revision
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venial sin
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Therefore gluttony is accounted among the lesser, that is to say venial, sins.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Its content mainly includes the confession of a suspect or a defendant to acknowledge a crime and his exculpation to declare himself innocent or guilty of a venial crime.
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But the schoolmen and casuists having too much philosophy to go about to clear a lie from that intrinsic inordination and deviation from right reason inherent in the nature of it, and yet withal unwilling to rob the world, and themselves especially, of so sweet a morsel of liberty, held that a lie was indeed absolutely and universally sinful; but then they held also, that only the pernicious He was a mortal sin, and the other two were only venial.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I.
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Luckily, the production is strong enough elsewhere for this to remain a venial sin.
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Khodorkovsky was also forced into lead an eremitic existence after committing the relatively venial sin of drinking tea in an unauthorized place--though this ruling sounds as though it may be a little harder to overturn.
Court Rules Khodorkovsky's Isolation Was Unlawful
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Epstein openly admits to some ignoble if venial attitudes.
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It was a venial mistake on Hume's part to include a reference to the mind's propensity in what was supposed to be a definition of causality.
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Yet despite their magnitude, these sins are of the venial rather than the mortal variety.
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The intellectualist wants to stay and contemplate the burning bush, to draw it to size, to define its properties, to dogmatise its meaning and to describe the distance at which presence to or from it becomes either a mortal or a venial sin.
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“Those sins are called venial sins,” Mary Catherine continues.
Amaryllis in Blueberry
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Venial sins were to be cleansed by daily use of the Lord's Prayer and by almsgiving.
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It is called venial precisely because, considered in its own proper nature, it is pardonable; in itself meriting, not eternal, but temporal punishment.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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a venial error
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The boron deficiency plant appears inter- venial chlorosis, thickening, crisping leaves and increased leaf weight ratio (LWR).
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If that's not a mortal sin, it's got to be up there on the venial meter.
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Father Gerard explained there were other sins than the venial kind.
INSTANCES OF THE NUMBER 3
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To his mind, the venial were the more numerous, but then, he had been a cynic for many years now.
The Lark And The Wren
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Rome teaches, that is, purificatory and punitive), but probatory, not restricted to those dying in "venial sin"; the supposed intermediate class between those entering heaven at once, and those dying in mortal sin who go to hell, but universal, testing the godly and ungodly alike
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Even quite venial offenders were sentenced to death.
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These sins are called venial sins because they do not separate the soul from its last end, nor destroy its supernatural life; also, they can be forgiven outside confession.
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Politics doesn't look at all like the hagiographies I read when I was at the Jesuit monastery, where all the saints were perfect, no venial sins even.
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Faught is guilty of this offense, but the sin is a venial one.
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Justinian at Constantinople; an anti-Handelist was looked upon as an anti-courtier, and voting against the Court in Parliament was hardly a less remissible or more venial sin than speaking against Handel or going to the Lincoln's Inn Fields Opera.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)
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He had compounded a number of venial failings with the mortal sin of adultery.
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The intellectualist wants to stay and contemplate the burning bush, to draw it to size, to define its properties, to dogmatise its meaning and to describe the distance at which presence to or from it becomes either a mortal or a venial sin.
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So does Michelle consider Tony's slip of the tongue and miraculous recovery of memory a venial or a mortal sin?
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I committed what Catholics call a ‘venial sin,’ a small-bore, not-too-important, micro-sin.
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Its content mainly includes the confession of a suspect or a defendant to acknowledge a crime and his exculpation to declare himself innocent or guilty of a venial crime.
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A venial sin, in economic terms, is an expression of greed that's reprehensible enough to warrant punishment but not so serious that it significantly undercuts the country's long-term growth.
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For a start, it's hard to imagine a more venial form of corruption than merely speeding along someone's visa application.
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Confession had always rested on a clear distinction between mortal and venial sins.
